odification a la chmod, for example,
kpsestat o+r FILE
gives you the permissions the file would have if its owner ran chmod o+r,
but doesn't actually change them.
However, it's in the tetex-bin package. Can't imagine why.
Jiri
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Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We'
Hello,
> >Rolf Edlund:
> >> Sometimes when trying to send mail, I get these message (sendmail -q -v):
...
Jiri Baum:
> >3) you do know that this is a server, and that user-friendly mail
> >programs exist, don't you?
Ralf G. R. Bergs:
> I think you don't g
ould not) be concerned with fetching mail. From the doc:
I think something was lost somewhere along the way...
My paragraph above was talking about MUAs (especially under Windows) that
let the user attach huge files without so much as showing the size, much
less warning if it's bigge
chine you have leafnode
on (or `localhost' if you only have one computer). Different users can use
different programs - it's all the same to leafnode.
> O ya, what is a newsfeed?
That's a server you get your news from.
Jiri
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Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We'll kno
lain, but you can ignore
that. You won't be able to close the properties box, but the change *will*
take effect as long as the box is open.
Yes, that's two Win95 bugs, one minor and one major, in one posting.
Jiri
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Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We'll know the future has a
is once again left
with a filename beginning with two dashes. I know, I have a lot of
ex-umsdos directories mounted over samba.
> 2. rm -- FILE
That usually works, but not for all commands.
(One that comes to mind is "cd". You have to say "cd ./DIRECTORY".)
Jiri
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trol-L
character.)
Then again, I don't have magicfilter (I don't think). There's probably a
better way to do things.
Jiri
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Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently
quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
x27;s expecting at the very least a set of headers, maybe giving it a
completely empty message confuses it.)
2) what MTA do you have? (ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail)
3) you do know that this is a server, and that user-friendly mail programs
exist, don't you?
Jiri
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Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ld be just a filename, with no immediate
> > indication of how big it really is.
>
> If u insist to have a such function, maybe Mutt can do that...
That's where it belongs, isn't it? (Well, maybe there should be a
standalone version of that program, too - you'd give it a
Hello,
About a month ago, I asked about a problem, but never got any response.
Perhaps somebody will know the answer now?
***
recently, my father began reporting an error when trying to save from mutt
to a samba-mounted (W95) drive. Saving locally works fine.
The message is:
Lock count exceed
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> Hello. I have two questions that I would appreciate some advice on, if
> anyone has time. I'm running slink with a 2.0.36 kernel.
>
> [1] I'd like to try `gawk' instead of `mawk' (currently
> installed). But `mawk' can't be removed by dpkg since basefiles
> depends
Hello,
Jens B. Jorgensen:
> When nmbd starts it figures out what IP address you're sitting on and
> then goes about the business of staking your claim to that name. It will
> *never* go back (not, at least, in the current version and I don't ever
> expect it to) and see if your IP address has chan
Hello,
Dieter Jäger:
> The sl0 device entries are set up by the diald package, which task is to
> automatically dial up the line to your ISP if needed.
I guess the solution, then, is:
a) if you want on-demand dialling, set up that (using diald),
b) otherwise, get rid of the diald package
shaul:
> Can you tell what cp complains about ?
It can't chmod (I think) on the vfat partition. (vfat partitions don't have
permissions.)
You can avoid the error message for msdos and vfat partitions by mounting
them with the `quiet' option.
I haven't found a way to avoid the error message with
Hello,
per_adua32:
> So I decided to try the rescue disk.
>
> After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped into bash. I then
> tried to unmount the root filesystem so that I could mount it again as
> read/write.
I think you don't want to do that - the root filesystem you are in at that
p
Hello,
recently, fetchmail refused to fetch and deliver a particular message,
claiming it got an SMTP error (from exim). Upon switching it to verbose, I
found the error message is:
fetchmail: SMTP< 552 Header line is ridiculously overlong
I can go read it manually from the POP server, but is th
Hello,
is there a simple way of browsing https pages?
For normal web browsing, I use wwwoffle (version 2.1c-1) and Netscape on
the W95 machine but it doesn't seem to handle https; lynx (version 2.8-2)
says outright it can't handle it.
Any suggestions, or do I just have to install Netscape on the
Hello,
recently, my father began reporting an error when trying to save from mutt
to a samba-mounted (W95) drive. Saving locally works fine.
The message is:
Lock count exceeded, remove lock?: [y]
Responding one way simply pops up the message again, the other way the save
is aborted.
Any sugg
> > How to make beep?
> > I don't want to do peintf "\a" but i have a process which has no controlling
> > terminal (from atd/cron)
Ookhoi:
> I just echo \a to /dev/tty8 It doesn't bother me there, and it makes a
> beeb (from out of a .procmailrc :-)
You could also use the "wall" command - it no
Hello,
where can I find ssh 2, please?
thank you
Jiri
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Philip Lehman:
> I managed to delete pstogif from /usr/bin somehow ;) Could somebody
> please tell me in which deb package this app is included so I can
> reinstall it?
If you just deleted it, dpkg should still think it's installed, so you
should be able to do "dpkg -S pstogif".
Sorry I can't hel
Antal Ritter:
> That's it. #!/bin/sh would be ok, but the kernel (?) will not find
> #!/bin/sh, and that's what the "file not found" referred to. This is
> one of my favourites.
Which, of course, suggests an alternative solution :-)
ln -s /bin/sh /bin/sh^M
(Which wouldn't work very well unless
> ] I just bought a new 3 button mouse for the convenience of better cut and
> ] paste, and find that I can't seem to make it work.
Fabio Olive leite:
> Most likely your mouse is (like mine) a dual mode mouse. Check if it
> doesn't have "PC" and "MS" written somewhere around the ball hole. For
> s
Hans van den Boogert:
> That makes me wonder: I have to install some packages on the notebook to
> get the external CD-ROM drive working. If I copy them from the CD-ROM on
> a DOS formatted floppy and then transfer to the notebook, will I get the
> same kind of trouble?
Nope. Copying deb files b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Quoted-printable is an abomination, and the least satisfactory of all the
> solutions to non-ASCII/non-RFC mail.
>
> As well as planting "=20" at the end of long-line breaks (and granted
> there is a need for a solution to the long-line problem), any true "="
> goes into "=3D"
Hello,
is there anything like run-parts that would run all the scripts at the same
time, and then wait for all of them to finish?
I wouldn't mind having most of my ip-up.d run together - I suspect there's
a lot of time spent idle waiting for protocol negotiation to go through...
Jiri
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Hello,
William R Pentney:
> Furthermore, is there a method of searching by package description,
less /var/lib/dpkg/available
HTH
Jiri
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Jae W. Chang:
> Yes, dselect isn't perfect. It doesn't have the most intuitive UI but...
Can I nominate that for the understatement of the month? :-)
...
> I'll forgo the useless UI feature set for something that just works.
Another wonderful thing with dselect is that you can mix it with calls
Hello,
"Jens B. Jorgensen":
> > This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!?
> > What do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'?
Daniel González Gasull:
> Nothing. :-( Here is my /proc/devices:
>
> ---begin quoted text---
>
> Character devices:
...
> Block devices
Hello,
Christian Dysthe:
> #! /bin/sh
> fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc
>
> I also made a more "complete" script using:
>
> #1 /bin/sh
That should be #! and there shouldn't be a space after it.
> if [ -x /usr/bin/fetchmail ]
>then /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc
>
Thomas Ruedas:
> > When booting I noticed the following message:
> > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug
> > Workaround enabled.
> > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented.
R. Brock Lynn:
> Have a look at the kernel code:
> (I'm referring to kernel 2.2.3 but it may be exac
Arcady Genkin:
> It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never gets
> done.
That's right.
> Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in case that it
> never got to run because it was off?
To get that, you can:
a) check out the anacron package, or
Hello,
Arcady Genkin:
> Well, I personally don't think that *that* is the problem. My outgoing
> mail bounces from the foreign servers, not sympatico's.
Why are you trying to send mail directly to foreign servers?
Simpler to give it all to your ISP and let *them* handle it. It's their
*job* to f
Hello,
Curt Howland:
> My bug report got no action, since the suggested package to "solve" the
> library problem will not install without the missing file.
I don't know where the file comes from (my system has libdb.so.2), but if
you need a file out of a package, you can always "ar x" and "tar x
Sean:
> > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials
> > that will break a working slink dist.
dyer:
> I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a dependency on libc6. Not the
> new one, _any_ one. It won't upgrade you to the new libc6. (Well, I guess
> if you were runn
Hello,
Chris Brown:
> Directory 825174: bad FAT
> Filesystem panic (dev 03:03, mounted on 03:01:454739)
> FAT error
> Filesystem panic (dev 03:03, mounted on 03:01:454739)
> fat_free: deleting beyond EOF
I used to get the same messages!
I'd go into DOS, run PC Tools DiskFix (which would find a w
Chris Brown:
> First off, I'm persuing this because I'd like to make my life a
> little easier when reviewing drive usage; I'd like (need) a way to
> list summerized directory space used on a single filesystem for one
> level of directories (below the current, perhaps).
du -x . | egrep
Daniel Gonz_lez Gasull:
> > I have problems mounting /dev/fd0:
> >
> > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device
> >(maybe `insmod driver'?)
Jens B. Jorgensen:
> This would seem to indicate your kernel
Jiri Baum:
> > is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is
> > partitioned, please?
> >
> > What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks)
> > and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/
Hello,
is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is
partitioned, please?
What I have is a SCSI magneto-optical disk drive (230MB removable disks)
and a bunch of disks. With some of the disks, I need to mount /dev/sda1,
with others /dev/sda directly.
(The disks have ex
Jiri Baum:
> > If you have messages that MUST not get into hostile hands, I suggest
> > reading a good cryptography text (sorry, I'm not keeping up with it
> > these days; is `Applied Cryptography' by Bruce Sterling...
Jonathan Guthrie:
> ITYM Bruce Schneier.
Ye
Pollywog (about kernel compiling):
> Sort of. I wanted to know if I could skip over the part where I have to
> answer all the questions. I did not mind having to do the remainder of
> the steps.
Yes, you can skip the "make config" step, but wouldn't you normally want to
change the answer to at l
Hello,
Nathan E Norman:
> The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it
> wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring
> data.
But if you're just going to put one tar.gz file on it, do you need a
filesystem at all?
Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
Gary Singleton:
> I have to ask what the advantage of gs-aladdin is (if any)?
gs-aladdin is the newest version
gs lags behind some fixed number of years (maybe three but I don't
remember)
I use gs-aladdin because it has/had some driver that I needed.
Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
> > Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. They
> > would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for 10
> > minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is
> > accessing the disks?
There's "fuser -mv /", but that just tells you whi
Hello,
ktb:
> > My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained
> > 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/'
Marlon Urias wrote:
> My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird
> thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd.
> t
Hello,
John Galt:
> What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not
> get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no
> access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then?
> This method should be as easy and as transportable as PO
Hello,
John Galt:
> > Most crypto is based on a similar setup to email,
Umm, no, cryptography is the art of writing messages that can only be
decoded by the intended recipient. Very little to do with e-mail.
If you have messages that MUST not get into hostile hands, I suggest
reading a good cryp
Hello,
Pollywog:
> I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim
> filters and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited
> to 8.3 type names. I believe there are some ways around this
umsdos - unix filesystem on top of MS DOS - that way you'll be able t
Hello,
Michael Stutz:
> This works for the CD-ROM drive after doing "chgroup audio /dev/cdrom;
> chgroup audio /dev/hdc" as root (should I have done that?) but doing "mount
> /dev/fd0 /floppy" as a user still gets "mount: only root can do that":
Only root is allowed to mount/umount things by defa
Hello,
James Mastros:
> I always run as root. Avoids permission problems.)
Hmm, most permission problems are there to tell you you're doing something
dangerous. Always running as root deprives you of that warning.
Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
Bradley Bell:
> I'm running potato, and just upgraded libc6. As can happen with unstable,
> it broke stuff. bash for one. since root has bash set as its shell, I
> can't log in as root. I can log in as a normal user, which has tcsh for
> its login shell.
> SO, does anybody know any way
Steve Lamb:
> > Ohh... You mean make it easy for idiot users to send large
> > attachments through a medium that wasn't designed for it, shouldn't be
> > used in that manner, and causes more problems than is needed with each
> > step of the way.
> > If I were to do it I'd have the email cl
Hello,
Stefan Nobis:
> Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than about 40-80KB without
> being asked to do so and without asking the recipient is not very nice
> and i would call it an offence.
Your point being?
Everyone knows that you shouldn't in general send files over about 50 KB
(or
Hello,
Chris Brown:
> kill pid# did not work. Somewhere along the way the jobs attained the
> "zombie" status, and kill wouldn't touch them. I finally rebooted.
>
> Can someone explain what a zombie is and how to kill it?
The idea is that when a process dies, gets killed or just exits, its paren
Hello,
> >> "JB" == Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> JB> I ask because I'd like to be able to use `mv' to move files. If it
> JB> can't set permissions on the destination, mv behaves like cp.
Martin Bialasinski:
> On FAT partit
Hello,
Some time ago, there was discussion of the "Operation not permitted" error
on FAT partitions, and someone suggested the `quiet' option.
Does such an option exist for Samba? (smbfs)
...
> > > It comes from the fact that cp tries to set some permissions on the
> > > destination file. That i
Pollywog:
...
> I had to put the commands in netbase instead, and I know that they will
> be overwritten when I upgrade.
No, they won't - netbase is a `conffile', which means if you change it dpkg
will ask you what to do.
Jiri
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Hello,
Conrado Badenas:
> I have just compiled a kernel for parport ZIP drive support, and now I
> would want to get an automatic way to mount and umount the drive. I have
> created the next script (/usr/local/bin/mtzip):
>
> /sbin/modprobe ppa.o
> /bin/mount /mnt/zip
Shell scripts can't be
Marlon Urias:
> > In my quest to understand booting/LILO/MBR's I've come a cross
> > a phenomenon I dont understand. Friend of mine (linux guru-ish)
> > said that to make a linux bootable floppy you had to use a lowlevel
> > tool like dd as opposed to just copying the files over to the floppy.
Y
Harold G. Stevenson:
...
> Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device or resource busy', attempt 34,
> sleeping 20 at 10:34:02
What else is using /dev/lp1?
fuser -v /dev/lp1
(That's if you have the psmisc package.)
Jiri
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Bal K. Paudyal:
> As root, I typed the following:
>
> "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh".
>
> I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not
> exist, the system does not allow me to log in as root. I tried to log as su
> but it does not work! There
Hello,
jelmar andree:
> I'v download some packages (.deb) and with dselect after , A, U, S and
> then I(nstall) i get the following message; "-no filename at -e line 12
> chunk18" .
That sounds like an error in a shell script. Which package is it installing
when it gives that message? Are there
Andreas Rapp:
> I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time
> as a regular user, not as root
Try the `su' command with the -c switch.
> (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to
> my account)
You can set fetchmail to send the e-mail to another user (using
Hello,
some time ago, I have asked on this list how to switch smarthosts in Exim
back and forth, since I use two ISPs. I didn't want to have two completely
separate config files, since they'd be likely to get out of sync.
I finally figured out how I can do it: using the ${lookup...} expansion. So
Mark Wagnon:
> Johann Spies wrote:
...
> > \newcounter{mynecounter}
> >
> > However the following file results in an error message when I run LaTeX:
...
> > \bepaling
...
> I am by no means a LaTeX guru, but I think the problem is that \bepaling
> isn't a TeX or LaTeX command.
If you are trying
crp:
...
> Should I use dpkg to force the downgrade of libc6 from the t version to the u
> version and then rerun apt-get upgrade?
> Will it break the packages that depend on libc6_2.0.7u only temporarily?
Hmm, personally I've been running slink packages against the hamm libc with
no problems (ap
John Plate:
> > How can I have a console start up an application automatically when
> > the system boots?
Jens Ritter:
> Look at the "open" package and the scripts in /etc/init.d and have a
> look at /etc/inittab, too.
The difference between the two being that the init.d scripts are run once,
whe
tracheotomy bob:
> Finally,
> How do I compile up Debian source code safely so that it doesn't
> upset dpkg?
...
> I don't want to upgrade to Slink and have to do the job all over again.
I understand the usual way is to change the version number to something
that's not likely to be exceeded
Chris Kaltwasser:
> Does someone know the meaning of this message?
I don't know what the message means, but I got it when I ran out of virtual
memory.
A way to check how much memory is free is using Shift-ScrollLock (with the
default keyboard map). This works even if there isn't enough memory fre
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Additionally, it would be nice if they could shut down without my
> intervention.
...
> Ah ... one other thought. Ctrl-Alt-Del is a safe reboot as defined,
> isn't it?
Yes (though faster than default).
Linux allows you to have one other combination that works like
Ctrl-Al
Dan Willard:
> Just how closely does Linux match with Unix? If I know Linux and sitdown
> in front of a Unix terminal am I just going to notice a few differences (ie
> file locations and a couple of commands) or am I going to be lost? I think
> I already know the answer but would like confirmati
Hello,
every week or two, I get a filesystem panic on one of my dos partitions,
and when I reboot to DOS, sure enough, it's a mess.
I don't know which comes first, the panic or the mess.
I fix it (PC Tools diskfix and/or DOS chkdsk), and a week or two later it's
back.
Any idea what might be cau
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven:
> I found some additional information about the cable modem:
Ah, you have a cable modem... and if it's not really Hayes-compatible,
you'll probably need to adjust the "chat script" that pon is using (most
likely in /etc/chatscripts/ ).
Once you get PPP up and running, tha
Serge Gavrilov:
> Now i have installed Slink. But I have a problem: /bin/open does not work
> properly.
Could it be a permissions problem?
You can tell by trying the same thing as root; if it works for root but
doesn't work for normal users, check the permissions on /dev/tty12 (or
whichever VT it
Ole J. Tetlie:
> I'm trying to set up my brothers computer so that it just boots by
> itself, and then mounts /usr and friends from my computer.
Have a read through FSSTND, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. One of its
purposes is to let you do exactly that. It's in the debian-policy package.
> C
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, David Webster wrote:
...
> : work arounds to allow someone other than root to write to a vfat
> : partition?
>
Nathan E Norman:
> Yeah, use an fstab entry like this (this is ntfs but applies to
> vfat/msdos also afaik)
>
> /dev/hda1 /ntdrv1 ntfs user,exec,nosuid,gid=50,
Kent West:
> Here's what I'd try:
> 1) Boot off a Win98 floppy that has the sys.com (or is it sys.exe?) and
> the fdisk.com (or is it fdisk.exe?) commands on it (or alternatively, you
> can run these commands from the hard drive).
> 2) Run "fdisk /mbr". This will "partition" the master boot recor
> Dean wrote:
> >
> > Just got debian up ( bare bones) and went to internet and to check I
> > first pinged IPS, then debian.org and ping wouldn't stop. Finally got
> > off internet by poff in another vc, ping cont. to try to send. Any
> > suggestions on ping? Also what can I do to stop a run away
Eliezer Figueroa:
> Packeges in non-us means that they are not in english?
It means that the US government would like to keep cryptography out of the
hands of its citizens and the only almost-legal way they have is to pretend
that they are worried about foreign terrorists.
Well, either that or th
Helge Hafting:
> You wrote:
> > Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven:
> > > ppp.log:
> > ...
> > > send (ATZ^M)
> > > expect (OK)
> > > ^M
> > > NO CARRIER
> > > -- Failed
...
> > That'd definitely be a problem, but I'm not sure how it'd come about; why
> > would a modem respond to `ATZ' with `NO CARRIER'?
>
>
Daryl Williams:
> does anyone know if there are any fax server software that will run on
> linux?
I use mgetty-fax, so now you have a complete set of responses (AFAIK).
We use it for both sending and receiving, no problems.
Jiri
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Peter Ludwig:
> error connecting to 192.168.0.11:139 (No route to host)
What does route tell you?
That's "/sbin/route" from the netbase package.
Jiri
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Darknight:
> Another thing in X is that I can get the mixer set so that the sound is
> absolutely perfect, however when I reboot the system the settings all
> return to default. Is there anywhere to force it to save the settings,
> or some file I could manually edit to force them?
Don't know how
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MacKenzie, Andrew:
> My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install
> packages using dpkg -i .
...
> Is this the right way to do things in Debian? I gave up on dselect
> because of the huge number of packages you must look at.
You can mix and match dselect and dpkg.
So you
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I'm still at a loss as to why this is giving me problems in the first
> place. From all I've read and ran across, 2.0.7t is less than
> 2.0.7.19981211-1. Why is dpkg having such a problem with this file?
I don't know what I'm talking about, but I was under the impression tha
eferen1:
> I have tried setting up an internet connection with no success.
>
> Every time I try connecting, I get the message "pppd daemon died
> unexpectedly".
>
> It does dial, I hear the initial connection made, and then it quits.
>
> I've used the terminal window to see what the problem is,
Doug Thistlethwaite:
> Thanks for the reply Andrei... Unfortunately it is a PNP card and I do
> not have windoze on the system to get the port numbers from.
In that case, you need isapnp and pnpdump.
The latter gives you an initial file to work from, you just need to decide
what IRQ etc you want
Lance Hoffmeyer:
> How can I use gawk or some other program to remove a number of lines
> from a text file. Initially, I only need to delete the top 10 lines
> from a file
As others already wrote, use
tail +11
> but it might be useful to know how to delete lines from any part of the
> f
> > How about suggesting some improvements, rather than "I don't like the
> > Debian install"?
> >
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> I find deselect as the only problem with debian. The update section
> really needs work.
Actually, I'd say the `Access' and `Select' screens need work, especially
Select.
>
Hello,
I wrote:
> I have a weird ongoing problem: I connect to a W95 box, smbmount a share,
> but some files on the share do not show up on directory listings
Thank you for your suggestions - I recompiled the kernel and switched on
the Win95 option and it works now. (I coincidentally upgraded to
Michael Stenner:
...
> as I said, the behavior you want is handled by the specific program, not
> the OS. It just so happens that most programs in Windows use the same
> key ("ctrl-f") and look the same. I think most good programs in linux
> will have a search behavior, but will just have differen
Becher, Andrew:
> Assuming I have a directory with many .deb files, is there an easy way to
> generate a packages.gz file for this directory?
If you just want dselect to install from that directory, you don't actually
need a packages.gz file - when dselect asks you where the Packages file is,
tell
John C. Ellingboe:
> Thanks to Frank and Dave for setting me straight on the
> /etc/host.allow entries, I thought I had Leafnode working properly. I
> was using leafnode version 1.4-10 and have now upgraded to version
> 1.6.2-2.
"I *think* I had some problem with a file that moved but wasn't dele
Colin Telmer:
> I keep getting this message placed into my various mailboxes and can't
> figure out what is doing it.
I believe it's the server side of IMAP (but not POP).
Either pine or netscape might be accessing your mailbox using IMAP.
Jiri
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> I have three computers on a LAN. I want to run an application in one of
> them and have the display output showing on the other two at the same
> time. I guess what I'm trying to do is something like MS netmeeting. Is
> this possible?
I'm not familiar with netmeeting, and othe
Hello,
Bal K. Paudyal:
> I have two pcs at home with net-work cards, PC-A & PC-B. In PC-A there is
> no CDROM drive, I installed Debian Linux base from floppies. In order to
> make room for Linux, I had to get rid of Windows 95 at PC-A, but I have
> kept DOS6.22 & Windows3.1. Now, I can't connect
Kent West:
> You can then go one step further and set up CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT to
> offer the choice of which OS you want to boot into.
You can go a step further still and set up autoexec to run one or the other
depending on the presence of a particular file, so you can switch from one
to the
Hello,
> > >>[bash]$ whoami; dpkg -i
> > >>mblevin
> > >>dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> > >>dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> > >>dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
> > >>dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> > >>dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
I wrote:
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